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Be in the Know - January 2016
Look Inside Your Librarian's BRAIN
On the FIND tab of the Seattle Academy library website, at the very bottom of the page is a peak into the virtual brain of your Librarian, Kathy Johnson. You can operate her brain by clicking on the choices. Look below the black background for links to content. This is what is happening inside my brain when I am answering your questions.
January 2016 Contest
The first person to find Waldo on the library website - library.seattleacademy.org - and to email the page site to kjohnson@ wins the very cool prize of an Euler's Disk: Spinning Science into Art.
Human-powered Speed Record
Ben Gode won our October contest. Congratulations Ben. Arielle Isaacs was our runner-up. Answer: A human-powered vehicle operated by Canadian Todd Reichart (pictured above) set a speed record in September of this year by reaching 85.71 mph. Kids! Please don't try to go this fast on your mountain bikes.
Check out our 83,000 e-books
Our Ebrary database offers a large selection of e-books on every topic. You can search by chapter to narrow down results. The Ebrary platform makes it remarkably easy to browse through e-books. Each person can set up their own bookshelf and there is never a need to download the books as they are perpetually available. There are no limits on how many people can access any particular book. This makes it possible for a teacher to assign a book chapter to the whole class. NOTE: the Ebrary reading level is college-level. Use Re-Wordify (a free service on the web) when you need to simplify the reading level of a text. This represents a virtual undergraduate library at your fingertips.
To log in please know this is not a single sign-on database:
- Your personal log in is the first part of your email address. (Example: rjones)
- Everyone has the same password: timecat.
- Click the bar below: "Log into Ebrary"
Additionally I am able to add books to this collection. Write me if you there is a topic or title that you would like to have added to our Ebrary collection. (kjohnson@)
Cool Tool Alert !
TubeChop lets you sample clips of YouTube videos. It's super simple. Just enter the YouTube video url and a timeline with sliders appear to help you choose exactly the portion of the clip you need. The resulting clip is given as an url and cannot be downloaded however I still find it quite a useful tool. (I'm quite sure some of you could figure out how to download it.)
The Seattle Academy Library
Email: kjohnson@seattleacademy.org
Website: http://library.seattleacademy.org
Location: 1201 E Union St.
Phone: 206-676-6825
Facebook: facebook.com/seattleacademy
Twitter: @SIMKathy